Insights

No Stone Unturned: Leveraging HUMINT Insights

 As you sip your shaken-not-stirred martini at the bar, you recognize “As Time Goes By” on the piano.  You sigh impatiently as you look at your Rolex again – your contact is late.  You have very urgent questions only they can answer and you are starting to worry.  Are they having trouble finding parking?   Or is their Aston Martin lying in a ditch, nudged off the road by shadowy figures hidden in the fog?  Read more! #CompetitiveIntelligence #HUMINT

The Numbers Game - data analysis for good

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)

Even though this quote is from more than 100 years ago, I think the attendees of the recent Do Good Data conference  would have been proud to put it on a T-shirt.  The conference’s aim is to help learn how data can and is changing nonprofit work.  Read more! #data

Score! Data Driven Success 

There must be a million resources about data analytics and statistics ranging from high school textbooks to blog posts commenting on the “big data” trend.  By comparison, advice on non-profit oriented data analytics, never mind fundraising, is few and far between.  For that reason alone Kevin MacDonell and Peter Wylie’s book Score!  Data-Driven Success for Your Advancement is a welcome addition.   Read more! #data